Is Rorschach bulletproof?

taco_truck_tom

In the movie Watchmen (2009) in the first Rorschach scene, he stumbles upon two policemen. One policeman shoots from a very short distance at him. We can see that Rorschach is very close, as the blaze of the gun is visible on his mask, and we can assume that the policeman has no trouble aiming at him - Rorschach doesn't move and the policeman does not change the position of his gun when firing (so I assume he doesn't have to correct his aim)....

Originally asked by styrofoam fly on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

No, he's not bulletproof. This confrontation with the police wasn't in the original graphic novel. There, Rorschach finds the Comedian's hiding place, lays out everything on the ground, releases his trademark "Hurm", and the next page cuts to Rorschach ambushing Nite-Owl at his house to inform him of the Comedian's murder. If he's not bulletproof - why would he risk getting severely hurt (or killed)? Rorschach is the son of a prostitute who dons the mask to scrawl his own moral design on a world of cowards willing to watch their neighbors raped and murdered . Nobody shoots at him in the original graphic novel (even when the police later capture him, they dog-pile him instead of firing), and...

Full answer by user36795: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/65413 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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